Memory THE ELEMENTS OF STORY TELLINGVersión en línea Based on the book The Telling and the Tale Narrative Creative Writing por Ana Gabriela Hernández Salazar A the central or dominating idea or statement about life that is presented either explicitly or implicitly in a literary work. A category into which literary works are classified according to form, technique, and conventions. Examples of modern genre are novel, essay, and short story Stock character The struggle or tension between two or more opposing forces in a narrative. Climax A type of telling using an all-knowing narrator who has total control of the telling and knows everything about all the characters events and situations Plot A fictitious being easily visualized by the reader because the writer has provided him or her with a number of qualities and traits; a complex character Chronological order A kind of literary character which is immediately familiar and recognizable to readers such as the brave hero, the naïve maiden, the evil stepmother, and so forth A term that refers to the structured sequence of events in a narrative Round character The time and place in which a narrative takes place. It includes references to time and location as well as intangible aspect such as social values norms beliefs and so forth Protagonist Falling action Conflict Third person point of view Genre Omniscient point of view A kind of telling in which the narrator presents a story from the perspective of only one character (or, less frequently, two) with access only to what that character says thinks hears and feels Setting Antagonist Stream of consciousness A character who opposes a protagonist Point of view A term used to refer to the point of greatest tension in the development of a narrative Plot. It is the point at which a crisis is reached (concerning the conflict) and after which at least some degree of resolution is achieved. It is also referred to as a crisis. In narratology, the position from which a narrative is told or perceived. This position is always inevitably subjective and can be inferred from choices of language use and context. Reader The order in which events occur according to the time at which they happened in narrative. This order is often changed by the narrator. When a narrative is told by voice that uses the pronoun “she” or “he”. This type of perspective supposedly provides the narrative with considerable objectivity because it establishes a distance between the narration and the character. Theme A relatively brief narrative written in prose usually used to categorize a subgenre of fiction A character who changes during the course of a literary work. The change maybe physical psychological and/or behavioral. Dynamic The perspective from which a narrative is told A character who presents a single or very limited number of traits these characters are also called one-dimensional characters. Limited omniscient point of view Perspective The actions that follow the climax and lead to a resolution of a plot A character who does not experience significant changes within the narrative The part of a plot that develops the conflict to the point of crisis Flat character Rising action A narrative technique that shows how a given character’s mind works by means of reproducing the flow of thought, recollections and sensations of a character. It uses disruptions of time and disjointed images Short story Static character The main character of a literary work The receiver of a written text considered by some theorists to be a co-author of the text
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